An impartial history of Michael Servetus, burnt alive at Geneva for heresie / [By Sir Benjamin Hodges?].

  • Servetus, Michael, 1511?-1553.
Date:
1724
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Credit: An impartial history of Michael Servetus, burnt alive at Geneva for heresie / [By Sir Benjamin Hodges?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ tions, all that I meane to fay is but this ? ‘There will come a time when three words y uttered with charity and meeknefs, Jhall re- tc ceive a Jarre more bleffed rewarde than <c three thoufand volumes, written with dif~ dainejull Jharpnes of wit. But the maner ‘£ of mens writing, raufl not alienate our “ hearts from the truth, if it appear they “ have the truth, as the followers of the fame <( defendor doth think he hath; and in that tc perfwafion they follow him no otherwife “ than himfelfe doth Calvin, Beza and tc others, with the like perfwafion, that they, ec in this caufe, had the truth; we being as (C fully perfwaded otherwife, it refieth, that u fome kind of triall be ufed to finde out which “ part is in error/' Upon this I obferve, (Firjls) The great difference between the fpirit and character of this judicious and learned author, and thofe of Calvin; that the former treats the latter with quite another temper than Calvin did his adverfary, Servetusj for the one adted upon chriftian principles, and the other upon popifii, as the fequel of of this hiftory will make it plainly appear: For I fhall fhow that Calvin would not fpare Serve t us after his death, tho5 he had be¬ fore glutted his cruel mind with his blood. If Mr. Calvin died in this temper, it can3t be faid he died a chriftian ; for the a- poftle Paul freely owns himfelf to be of the clafs of the chief of finners, or in other words, to have been a very wicked man ; and that had he not repented[ of his blaf- phemy and perfection, and been converted